One of the S&P 500’s big winners for Thursday February 18 was Chesapeake Energy Corp. ($CHK) as the company’s stock climbed 6.38% to $2.00 on volume of 27.61 million shares.

The stock opened at $1.97 and saw an intraday low of $1.90 and an intraday high of $2.14. All told, the day saw a per-share gain of $0.12. The stock’s average daily volume of 25.52 million and 665.07 million shares outstanding. Chesapeake Energy Corp. now has a 50-day SMA is $3.62 and 200-day SMA is $8.00, and it has a 52-week high of $21.17 and a 52-week low of $1.50.

Chesapeake Energy Corp is a natural gas and oil exploration and production company. It explores, develops and acquires properties for the production of natural gas and crude oil from underground reservoirs and also provides marketing & midstream services.

Based out of Oklahoma City, OK, Chesapeake Energy Corp. has 5,500 employees and, after today’s trading, reached a market cap of $1.33 billion. Its P/S ratio is n/a, P/B ratio is 1.09, and P/FCF ratio is -0.5.

The S&P 500 represents the industry standard for large-cap indices. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) may be the most visible stock market index in the country, the S&P 500 has long been relied on by industry insiders and fund managers as the more reliable gauge of portfolio performance.

While the DJIA is price-weighted and only includes 30 stocks, the S&P 500 uses a weighting system that factors in market cap and the size of a company’s free float while including some 500 stocks for a more comprehensive look at the broader markets’ performance. Its performance is far more representative of the large- and mega-cap stocks for any period of time.

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